OK, I'm now trying the following parent called new3.cgi - 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

$|++;

$ENV{PATH} = "/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/
+sbin";

use CGI qw(:all delete_all escapeHTML);

print header(),
start_html(-title => "Traceroute Results");
print h1("Traceroute Results");

#open STDERR, ">&=1";

exec '/usr/bin/perl', '-T', 'child.pl', 'number=4' or die "Cannot exec
+ute : $!";

print end_html;

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I call this on the command line with perl new3.cgi and get -
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html
        PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
         "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-U
+S"><head><title>Traceroute Results</title>
</head><body><h1>Traceroute Results</h1>param: 4
Command line reporter
Called with 1
parameters which was
1: number=4
*
*

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I then call this with my browser and get -
Traceroute Results
param: Command line reporter Called with 1 parameters which was 1: num
+ber=4 * *

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but if I uncomment the line - open STDERR, ">&=1"; I get -
Traceroute Results
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at child.pl 
+line 10. param: Command line reporter Called with 1 parameters which 
+was 1: number=4 * *

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The command line call is working fine, the browser calls are not
So I'm guessing my problem has something to do with buffering. Any suggestions?

In reply to Re^3: Passing Args via Exec by Anonymous Monk
in thread Passing Args via Exec by Anonymous Monk

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